Clothes-pin.



T. A. BOURGEOIS.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED ocT.5. 1910.

1,136,768. Patented Apr.20, 1915.

TILMAN A. BOURGEOIS, 0F AUBURNDAIJE, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

Application filed October 5, 1910. Serial No. 585,465.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TILMAN A. BOURGEOIS, a `citizen of the United States, residing at Auburndale, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and i useful Improvements` in Clothes-Pins; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes pins, and more particularlyto thatY class adapted to be made from resilient material.

The object of this invention is the provision of a device of this character which will be very simple in construction and which can be manufactured at the minimum cost.

With the above and other objects in view,

this invention resides in the novel featuresof construction, combinations, formations and arrangements of parts to be more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved clothes pin applied to a garment suspended on a clothes line, the said clothes line and garment being shown yin dotted lines; Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, the numeral 1 desi ates generally my improved spring c othes pin, formed of resilient wire or other like material, and having its intermediate portions bent to form a spring loop 2, provided with a pair of legs 3, constructed by twisting the material in substantiallty parallel relation from the meeting ends o the loop 2.

The legs 3 are oppositely offset, as at 4, in order that'they may rmly grasp the garment to be suspended upon a clothes line, while the opposite ends are ared outwardly, so that they may be readily slipped over the garment and line with little or no loss of requirements time incurred by manually spreading the legs apart prior to using'.

In order to strengthen the pin and prevent its derangement or distortion the material comprising the legs 3 is bent back uponitself indicated as 'at 5, said bent back portions being crossed at a point above the open end of the loop 2 and within the loop and then bent at approximately right angles to the legs into approximately U-shaped loop engaging portions 6 which embrace the sides of the loop. The free extremity 6a of each portion 6 is adapted to engage the bent back portion of the legs at the upper terminals 6b thereof thereby preventing the loop 2 becoming distorted.

From the foregoing disclosure it will be manifest that a spring clothes pin is provided for which will fulfil all the necessary of such a device.

Having thus fully described this invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A clothes pin consisting of a single piece of wire, 'an open loop formed approximately centrally of the ends of the wire, outwardly extending clamping legs formed integral with the loop at the ends thereof, each of said clamping legs consisting of a single piece of wire bent intermediate its ends back upon itself, said legs being bowed intermediate their ends, the bent back portions of the legs being crossed at a point above the open end of the loop and within said loop and then bent to'provide U-shaped loop engaging portions receiving the sides of the open loop and the free ends of the loop engaging portions arranged for engagement with the bent back portions of the legs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

TILMAN A. BOURGEOIS.

Witnesses:

, WILLIS F. HADLooK,

WALTER T. THOM. 

